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Saturday, April 7, 2012

Classic Poetry - "The Computation" by John Donne

John Donne (1572 - 1631)

The Computation

FOR my first twenty years, since yesterday, I scarce believed thou couldst be gone away ; For forty more I fed on favours past, And forty on hopes that thou wouldst they might last ; Tears drown'd one hundred, and sighs blew out two ; A thousand, I did neither think nor do, Or not divide, all being one thought of you ; Or in a thousand more, forgot that too.Yet call not this long life ; but think that IAm, by being dead, immortal ; can ghosts die ?

John Donne was the original metaphysical poet. Fellow poet John Dryden wrote of him: "He affects the metaphysics, not only in his satires, but in his amorous verses, where nature only should reign; and perplexes the minds of the fair sex with nice speculations of philosophy, when he should engage their hearts, and entertain them with the softnesses of love."

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